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doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

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[SOLVED] LXDE: is it possible to change the menu icon size?

I want to use bigger menu icons. I have been googling, and I am able to change icon sizes for the panel and pcmanfm items (including desktop icons), but I have found no way of changing the icon sizes of the menu entries. Is it possible? How?

Last edited by doragasu (2016-02-02 16:00:34)

Ziusudra

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Registered: 2014-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] LXDE: is it possible to change the menu icon size?

So, I was curious about this myself. After much googling and even looking at the source for the menu plugin I eventually kind of found the answer on the wiki.

Make (or edit) the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine and add the line:

gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-menu=24,24"

If the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 doesn't exist, run lxappearance which will create it. That file will source the ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine file.

You can make it take effect without logging out with:

lxpanelctl restart

This will make the menu icons in most any GTK2 app that size. To change just the lxpanel menu plugin icon size you would have to recompile lxpanel after changing the GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU in plugins/menu.c. I don't know what you would change it to, however.

Last edited by Ziusudra (2016-02-02 02:06:13)

doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 154

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE: is it possible to change the menu icon size?

That did the trick, thanks a whole lot!